Art of Advocacy Archives - The Average Advocate

Five Steps To Begin Restful Changemaking

by Elisa | Nov 25, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Productivity | 0 |

A Path for Restful Changemaking: I’m not shy about my story of burnout while having my life...

How To Be Intentional the Middle of the Fall

by Elisa | Oct 30, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Giving Back, Leadership, Life Purpose, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth | 0 |

How can we be intentional in the middle of it all? We can living purposefully in seasons of...

Social Justice For the Sensitive Soul – Justice Daily S3E6

by Elisa | Jun 26, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Justice Daily Interview, Leadership, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit the model for classic activism? That you were too...

How To Be An Advocate When You Don’t Know Where You Stand: On Palestine/Israel

by Elisa | Jun 13, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Human Rights, Love Your Neighbor, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

How do we engage in advocacy when we don’t know where we stand on a social issue? One of the...

Connecting With and Caring For Diverse Cultures with Dr. Michelle Reyes on Justice Daily S3E2

by Elisa | May 26, 2024 | Adventure, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, Justice Daily Interview, Leadership, Love Your Neighbor, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Your Voice on Racism | 0 |

How do we connect with and care about diverse cultures, especially when others we know don’t care?

Poem for Changemakers

by Elisa | Apr 24, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Create Awareness, poetry | 0 |

Why do Changemakers burnout? This poem for Changemakers was written to help them see their value.

Responding to Injustice With Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn

by Elisa | Apr 16, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Fully Alive, Giving Back, Hard Conversations, Leadership, Personal Growth, Safe Spaces, Seeking Justice | 0 |

Do our responses to social issues reflect trauma responses? If so, how can we help ourselves to help others better?

We Can’t Escape Real Life While Changemaking

by Elisa | Mar 20, 2024 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Family & Relationships, Fully Alive, Hard Conversations, Identity, Live Intentionally, Lupus and Autoimmune Disease, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Raising Kids, Recovery, Safe Spaces, Stuff of the Heart | 0 |

We can’t escape real life while we are changemaking. The context matters. Let’s be aware of these four elements as we create change.

So You Want to Talk About Race?

by Elisa | Feb 12, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Human Rights, Seeking Justice, United States, Your Voice on Racism | 0 |

So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo, has been on my list for a few years, and if I am honest, like most books on racism, it made me feel anxious and uncomfortable to pick up. To my surprise, this book does an...

Loving Your Neighbor: Digging and Building Sandcastles

by Elisa | Feb 7, 2024 | Adventure, Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Live Intentionally, Love Your Neighbor, Personal Growth | 0 |

Loving your neighbor has a lot of similarities to digging sand and building sandcastles. I’ve had a lot of moments by the ocean to think about this recently. I’ve been going to the beach during or soon after it has...

Safe Water and Hopeful Changemaking: Justice Daily S3E1

by Elisa | Jan 17, 2024 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Clean Water, Create Awareness, Family & Relationships, Global Health, Raising Kids, Seeking Justice, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

Here’s how we can approach changemaking hopefully and advocate for safe water

Social Change Ecosystems: Justice Daily S2E3

by Elisa | Nov 21, 2023 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Justice Daily Interview, Live Intentionally, Personal Growth, Seeking Justice | 0 |

Did you know each of us have different roles in social change? We all play different parts in doing good, based on our experience, skill, natural bent, and stage of life. Deepa Iyer has mapped out these changemaker roles to give...